Only 6 Trillionaires ever lived

Prabhu Balakrishnan
4 min readJun 30, 2021

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You may have heard millions and billions quite often. Have you thought about trillions? Becoming a trillionaire is no easy job. Having this much money is equivalent to unbelievable amount of wealth. A trillion is such a huge number followed by twelve zeros. That is one thousand times a billion.

As of today, there are no trillionaires who live on earth. Such extreme wealth we dont see in our lifetime. Believe it or not it is an unbelievable wealth. In the past Kings had that much wealth. Most of these wealth came from earth’s resources rich in minerals, the riches in earth is only declining as years pass by.

Today’s billionaires own only a fraction of wealth when compared to trillion and many are already old. It would take another century to produce a trillionaire and another thousand years to produce a quadrillionaire (1000 times a trillionaire)

These are the only 6 trillionaires who lived on earth from history who reached the pinnacle of wealth.

1. Genghis Khan

  • 1206–1227
  • King of Mongol Empire
  • Estimated wealth: $100+ trillion

2. Zhao Xu

  • 1048–1085
  • Emperor Shenzong of Song in China)
  • Estimated wealth: $30 trillion

3. Akbar, The Great

  • 1542–1605
  • Emperor of India’s Mughal dynasty)
  • Estimated wealth: $21 trillion

4. Amenhotep III

  • 1388–1351 BC
  • Pharaoh of Egypt
  • Estimated wealth: $4–6 trillion

5. Augustus Caesar

  • 63 BC-14 AD
  • Roman emperor
  • Estimated wealth: $4.6tn

6. King Solomon

  • 970–931 BCE
  • King of Israel
  • Estimated: $2.2 trillion

7. Mansa Mousa

  • 1280–1337
  • King of the Mali empire and Timbuktu in Africa
  • Total wealth: $0.5 trillion

Measuring Wealth in Trillions

Take look below, the wealth owned by top billionaires of all times whose wealth measured in trillions.

  • Jakob Fugger — $0.4 trillion
  • Rockefeller — $0.35 trillion
  • Andrew Carnegie — $0.3 trillion
  • Nicholas Romanov — $0.3 trillion
  • William de Warenne — $0.22 trillion
  • Osman Ali Khan — $0.23 trillion
  • Henry Ford — $0.2 trillion
  • Gaddafi — $0.2 trillion
  • Jeff Bezos — $0.16 trillion
  • Bill Gates — $0.14 trillion
  • Elon Musk — $0.04 trillion

Modern day billionaires have a long way to go to hit the trillion figure. They have to push the limits and keep working hard. They also have to live long enough to become a trillionaire. With much earth’s vast natural wealth fast declining, riches in space exploration will create the next living trillionaire.

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Net worth of Richest Royals

The Royal wealth has declined considerably during the modern times. These numbers just not enough to be measured in trillions.

This is a list of richest royals, as estimated by the CEOWORLD magazine in 2019 and Business Insider in 2018, by their personal net worth, excluding properties held by the state, government or Crown, in U.S. dollars.

1.Vajiralongkorn — King of Thailand$43 billion — $30 billion

2 Hassanal Bolkiah — Sultan of Brunei — $28 billion — $20 billion

3 Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud — King of Saudi Arabia $18 billion

4 Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan — President of the United Arab Emirates
Emir of Abu Dhabi $15.0 billion

5 Mohammed VI — King of Morocco $8.2 billion — $2.1 billion

6 Hans Adam II — Prince of Liechtenstein $7.2 billion — $3.5 billion

7 Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum — Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates Emir Sheikh of Dubai$4 billion

8 Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg — Grand Duke of Luxembourg $4 billion

9 Juan Carlos I, King of Spain — King of Spain (abdicated in 2014) $2.3 billion — $2 billion

10 Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani — Emir of Qatar — $2.1 billion — $1.2 billion

11 Albert II — Prince of Monaco — $1.0 billion

12 Elizabeth II — Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms (etc..)$530 million — $520 million

13 Charles, Prince of Wales Prince of Wales — $420 million

14 Queen Beatrix — Queen of the Netherlands (abdicated in 2013) — $200 million

Source: Wikipedia

This article Republished from Best Citizenships

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Prabhu Balakrishnan
Prabhu Balakrishnan

Written by Prabhu Balakrishnan

Entrepreneur and Investor.Founder of Best Citizenships and World Citizenship Council. Interests include Travel, Machine learning, Cryptocurrencies. Coffee Lover

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